Bank of Montreal (BMO)
People: Ex-Morgan Stanley exec Mendelsohn launches advisory boutique
Veteran equity derivatives banker founds London-based firm Alpima
People: Regan quits Asia CRO role at JP Morgan
US bank loses new regional CRO after just three months; HSBC unifies inflation trading business under Mirfendereski; Min Park replaced at Credit Suisse; forex hires at Bank of Montreal
Bank of Montreal emerging markets straddle delivers returns in rising and falling markets
Returns in both directions
Covered call ETFs bridging the gap between ETFs and structured strategies
Exchange-traded funds that buy call options on the underlying stocks are attracting big inflows in North America
JP Morgan loss highlights lack of risk experts on bank committees
A committed committee?
Risk & Return Canada: CBA slams ‘regulatory risk’
Policy head at Canadian Bankers Association expresses fears about side-effects of regulation; other speakers complain about "alphabet soup" of new rules
Banks hope for CCP capital concessions at Basel meeting
Banks and CCPs are pressing for changes to method of calculating default fund capital
ETFs dominate underlyings in latest SEC registrations
Exchange-traded funds form the basis of a raft of structured products registered with the US regulator in the week ending June 8
Swedish names make appearance in latest SEC structured product filings
Swedish wealth manager Garantum Fondkommissionen and Swedish Export Credit Corporation returned to the US structured products market last week
Wells Fargo offers enhanced protection as resources and energy dominate latest SEC filings
Wells Fargo note offers guaranteed return of 7% plus principal as a raft of energy and natural resource-based reverse convertibles are filed with the SEC
Financials and tourism the latest picks for US structured product underlyings
Of the 91 structured products filed last week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, more than 40 were reverse convertibles and nine were digitals. Financials and tourism were the most popular underlyings
Food, technology and ETF underlyings feature in latest US structured product filings
New product filings with the SEC show a preference for technology and ETF underlyings, and include a Bank of Montreal reverse convertible based on the stock of Whole Foods Market
Banks offer energy and natural resource exposure in SEC filings
Most of the latest structured products filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission are linked to shares of companies from the energy and natural resources sector
US issuers diversify from reverse convertibles
The latest filing with the SEC is dominated by leveraged return notes and reverse convertibles, with some autocallables and a straddle offering diversity
Bank of Montreal wakes up to coffee company-linked product
Bank of Montreal has filed a coffee company-linked product with the SEC, and UBS has registered another seven reverse convertibles
Bank of Montreal rolls out more reverse convertibles
The Canadian bank has registered a further three reverse convertibles with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, while JP Morgan and Citi filed straddle products linked to the performance of ETFs
Bank of Montreal offers plethora of reverse convertibles in the US
Thirty-five new structured products were listed with the US SEC yesterday, led by a glut of supply from Bank of Montreal
Tenors get tastier as Bank of Montreal launches Abercrombie & Fitch reverse convertible
Fifty-two structured products were registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 7, maintaining the boost in issuance that began the previous day
Goldman Sachs extends tenors in the US with five-year principal-protected note on the DJIA
A mass of new structured products registered in the US public market are dominated by HSBC and UBS, though Goldman Sachs stands out in terms of tenor with its five-year capital-protected note
Bank of Montreal offers glimpse of sunny returns
Bank of Montreal and Goldman Sachs revive somnabulant US public issuance market with racy reverse convertible and leveraged return note
Banks criticise plan to deduct DVA from equity capital
Comment letters from Isda and Bank of Montreal argue Basel Committee proposal on DVA deductions goes too far
BMO gains stronghold in the US issuance with raft of reverse convertibles
Reverse convertibles are the product of choice in the latest issuance, Bank of Montreal has the lion's share.
BMO's David Fletcher: advancing on the AMA
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Op risk in Canada: a recipe for success
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